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Sophomore
Rosa Perez lost her singles match, dropping her to 18-7 overall.
The Frogs host Oregon at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Bayard H. Friedman
Tennis Center.
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China
has never really understood the United States, and the United States
has never really understood China. China is now rising to power
in East Asia, and the United States is an existing power in the
Pacific. They are going to have to learn to exist together.
Joseph
Lake, a former U.S. ambassador to Albania and Mongolia
(see today's
Issues section)
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NCAA
mends rules
Student-athletes
to see financial incentives
By Matt Stiver
Skiff Staff
With college
athletes defecting to the professional ranks in record numbers,
the NCAA Management Council approved rule changes Tuesday night
that will allow athletes in certain sports to benefit financially
while enrolled in school.
Athletics Director Eric Hyman said the changes are reasonable.
Its a huge leap forward from these changes (to actually
paying athletes), Hyman said. I dont see that
happening at all. They are all within the bounds and spirit of amateurism.
Ultimately, a balance must be struck between the classroom and the
athletic field. These rules dont upset that balance.
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story)
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Law
school may need improvements
Simply
changing name of institution wont bring prestige, some say
By Melissa DeLoach
Senior Reporter
Tracey Sowards,
a TCU alumna, said she applied to South Texas College of Law in
Houston, because the trial advocacy programs are some of the best
in the nation.
However, if TCU had a law school at the time, she said she would
have applied there right away.
There are so many reasons why I would have stayed, she
said. I love Fort Worth. My friends and family are close by,
and my experience as an undergraduate was amazing. It would have
been great to expand on my relationships with professors and staff.
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story)
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Law
school talks resemble past cases
By Chris Gibson
Skiff Staff
In 1992, the
financially strapped University of Bridgeport sold its law school
to Quinnipiac College in a deal reportedly worth close to $6 million.
At the time, Bridgeport officials saw the selling of the law school
as a possible way to climb out of a financial hole the school had
been digging for years, according to a series of reports by The
New York Times from fall 1991 to August 1992.
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story)
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Alumnus
to speak on U.S., China standoff, relations
Lake
says U.S. tends to simplify issues
By Julie Ann
Matonis
Staff Reporter
Regardless of
who is to blame for the recent collision of an American spy plane
and a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea, the United States
and China seem to have agreed to avoid a confrontation with each
other, said TCU alumnus Joseph Lake.
Lake, current director of international affairs for the city of
Dallas, will be speaking at 2 p.m. in Beasley Hall, Room 5 about
relations between the United States and China.
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story)
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Dean
candidate visits campus
By Alisha Brown
Staff Reporter
Bridging the
departments within the College of Communication would be the primary
goal of Dan OHair, a professor of speech communication from
the University of Oklahoma who is on campus this week interviewing
for the position of dean of the college.
But OHair said allocating available resources within the college
might come down to which department could argue the best case and
demonstrate the most need for resources, which could divide the
departments.
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story)
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Canadian
officer to give briefing
By
Jennifer Koesling
Staff Reporter
Although all of the Air Force and Army ROTC cadets are required
to attend a military briefing, Josh Grimes that said he is looking
forward to it.When Maj. James P. Follwell, Canadian forces liaison
officer to Fort Hood, speaks on campus today, Grimes said he will
be paying close attention to FollwellÕs personal experiences.
ÒIÕm interested in hearing about what he does, how it works and
what it is like to deal with foreign customs, because I am interested
in becoming a liaison officer,Ó Grimes, a sophomore political
science and business major, said.
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story)
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KTCU
hopes for upgrade
Budget
problems have left station behind the times
By
Jaime Walker
Senior News Editor
For
the students in the radio-TV-film department who want work in a
large radio market, like the Dallas-Fort Worth area, KTCU 88.7-FM
is a great place to gain on-air experience, but the station needs
a technological upgrade if it hopes to prepare students for the
industrys top jobs, said David Kindred, programming manager
for KTCU.
With that motivation in mind, Kindred decided to make it his personal
mission to help the radio station purchase a Live Assist Machine,
which is an advanced computer system that stores the stations
musical selections electronically.
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story)
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Photo
by Tim Cox - Skiff Staff
Allan
Schwegmann, a senior radio-TV-film major, plays the top
hits for KTCU 88.7-FM from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday nights.
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Political
games
People
need not be used as pawns
The Chinese
government agreed Tuesday to return the 24 U.S. crew members who
have been held captive since their EP-3 spy plane was forced to
make an emergency landing following its collision with a Chinese
F-8 fighter jet 10 days ago.
And we all got lucky.
President Bush and his officials survived the stalemate without
having to make an official apology for our militarys covert
operations. The incident ended without need for further military
action. No one died. No one on our side was seriously injured. No
harm, no foul.
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story)
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Keep
God out of popular music
Rock
n roll has legacy of heresy, holds its own gateway to
religion
By Jack Bullion
Skiff Staff
Throughout the
music industry, Im seeing musicians give mad props to the
G-O-D. And indeed, hes all over the pop music map. Faith Hill
gets teary about Him on her Behind the Music special.
Puff Daddy sorry pal, thats what youll always
be to me serenaded him (horrendously) on My Best Friend.
Limp Bizkit, of all people, gave a shout-out to the big fella
in the liner notes of their Significant Other.
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Both
sides were to blame in plane crash
Americans
acting too righteous with their stance on the U.S-China situation
By Chris Dobson
Skiff Staff
Imagine, if
you will, a contact lens, sitting in solution on a desk between
you and a friend. You are explaining, quite rationally, that it
is in fact a convex lens, but meanwhile your friend rants and raves
that it must be concave. Four more of your friends stop by the table
and standing behind you, agree that in fact it is a convex lens.
Now an objective observer might conclude that both views are correct
from the point of view of that of the six people around the table.
America and China are facing a similar crisis right now.
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story)
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Letter
to the editor
Volunteerism
should be personal gift instead of a requirement
Over the past
semester, the Skiff has published articles pushing for requiring
volunteerism in college. Think about this: doesnt requiring
someone to volunteer contradict itself? Unfortunately,
the self-contradictory idea of required volunteerism
has spread to the Student House of Representatives. In an April
10 article, I learned that Academic Affairs chairman Brian Casebolt
wants House to pass a resolution that would require faculty to do
community service in order to earn tenure.
Let me translate this with my politically incorrect dictionary:
Casebolt wants to force TCU faculty members to do unpaid labor to
ensure that they can keep their paying jobs permanently.
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story)
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Loans
wont keep student-athletes at universities
A
commentary
By Danny Horne
Skiff Staff
It all sounds
so complicated.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the NCAA management council
voted to allow certain student-athletes to receive money for
private lessons and to obtain a one-time $20,000 bank loan based
on future earnings.
Specifically, those changes would allow tennis players and golfers
to accept money for private lessons. Athletes of Olympic caliber
would also be compensated for quality performances at the Olympics.
Only athletes who are deemed possible first-round picks in basketball
and baseball and at least third round picks in football and hockey
are eligible for the $20,000 loan.
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story)
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Record
turnout at tryouts
Cheerleaders
vie for spots on squad
By Alisha Brown
Staff Reporter
Sixty-eight
potential TCU cheerleaders stretched and tumbled trying to shake
their nerves before the cheerleading clinic at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum
Wednesday.
Changes in dates, rules and funding led to a record turnout for
the tryouts, cheerleading coach Jeff Tucker said. Last year only
42 people were in attendance.
We have about 60 (women) here (Wednesday) and eight guys,
Tucker said. And well still have people show up the
day of the tryouts.
Holding the tryouts over a three-day weekend allowed for a greater
number of participants to travel to tryouts, Tucker said.
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story)
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Graduate
student Carl Long lifts stunting partner DeDe Cullum during
a cheer at a TCU football game last season.
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Long
leads more than cheers
Abilities,
determination help cheerleader meet challenges
By Colleen Casey
Skiff Staff
A potato blocking
Super Frogs airway meant opportunity for cheerleader and graduate
student Carl Long.
Head cheerleading coach Jeff Tucker said Long finds opportunity
in every challenge he faces in life. During breakfast one morning
on the trip to Annapolis, Md. for TCUs football game against
Navy in September, Long was able to save Super Frogs life
when he choked on a piece of potato.
Everyone around (Super Frog) backed away and wasnt able
to do anything, but Carl was already giving him the Heimlich (maneuver)
before I even looked to see what was going on, Tucker said.
Thats the kind of person Carl is though. Youre
always well in hand when hes around.
Long, 22, graduated from TCU in May 2000 with a degree in history
and a minor in special education.
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story)
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Tech
defeats Frogs
Team
fails to utilize opportunities in loss
By Brandon Ortiz
Skiff Staff
Texas Tech used
a three-run rally with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning
to put the TCU baseball team out of striking distance and in a,
9-4, victory Wednesday.
The Horned Frogs (22-16) have now lost seven of their last nine
games. The Frogs will try to redeem themselves when they face Texas-Arlington
at 2:35 p.m. at the TCU Diamond today.
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story)
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Photo
by Tim Cox - Skiff Staff
Freshman
Paty Aburto (right) picked up a straight-set win Wednesday,
helping the 26th-ranked womenÕs tennis team defeat Southern
Methodist, 4-3, at Haggar Tennis Stadium in Dallas. The win
was the 12th in a row for the Frogs, moving their record to
15-3.
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Photo
by Tim Cox - Skiff Staff
After
the track team competed at the UTA Invitational and the
Texas Relays in back-to-back weekends, head coach Monte
Stratton said some sprinters need a break.
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Track
teams prepare for meet
Some
plan to use time to recoup
By Sam Eaton
Skiff Staff
As the mens
and womens track teams prepare for their fourth meet of the
outdoor season, head coach Monte Stratton said the top sprinters
and relay teams need some time off.
Six days ago at the Texas Relays in Austin, senior Kim Collins ran
the fastest 100-meter dash in the world so far this year, and the
4x100-meter relay team ran the second-fastest NCAA time this season,
trailing only the time they set a week earlier at the UTA Invitational.
But, several of the top athletes intend to get some rest as the
core of the team competes at the Texas A&M Invitational Saturday
in College Station.
Stratton said the team will look to take it easy at the invitational.
Were not going to push it or run our high-profile sprinters,
Stratton said. Collins wont be running, and it will
be up to the other top sprinters if they want to run.
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story)
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Issues
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International
Policy: Examing the United States and China
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10
Days
By Carrie Woodall
Staff Reporter
The last 10
days have proven to be a lesson for the United States and China
on how to manage a mature relationship while being world powers,
said Joseph Lake, director of international affairs for Dallas.
No blame was accepted by either country for the collision of the
U.S. EP-3 spy plane and a Chinese F-8 fighter jet, but the avoidance
of major conflict has become a step toward maturity on both sides,
he said.
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George W. needs to prove worth outside
fathers shadow
By Jaime Walker
Senior News Editor
When a U.S.
EP-3 spy plane collided with a Chinese F-8 fighter jet off the coast
of China 10 days ago, the incident sent President George W. Bush
and his advisers scrambling to find a way to get the 24 American
crew members returned without frustrating an already tense relationship
with the Chinese government.
It sent political historians and analysts searching for metaphors
by which to compare father and son, past and present.
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story)
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Bushs
strategies in foreign conflicts still unclear despite situations
in China, Russia
By Bethany McCormack
Staff Reporter
With his presidency
just beginning, President George W. Bush has already been involved
in conflicts with Russia and China, putting his foreign policy in
the spotlight.
Manochehr Dorraj, associate professor of political science, said
Bush did not have a specific foreign policy strategy during his
campaign for the presidency and, thus far, Bushs style has
yet to be revealed.
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story)
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Returning
of U.S. crew members does not mean an end to dispute, some say
By Jonathan
Sampson
Staff Reporter
After 11 days,
the 24 American crew members who were forced to make an emergency
landing on the island of Hainan are about to return home. But even
with the return of the crew, strained relations may continue, causing
concerns about U.S. relations with China and the changing economy,
said Ralph Carter, TCU professor of political science.
China wants the United States to end reconnaissance missions over
international waters near China, but the United States does not
plan to change its current policy, an article on (CNN.com) reported
Wednesday.
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story)
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Entertainment
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High
School Shootings Close to TCU
Perkins
By Laura McFarland
Skiff Staff
The events that
lead up to and follow a school shooting are only part of a play
by Steve McGaw. Landscape With Stick Figures opens with
Ethan Salisbury being tackled after going on a shooting rampage
at his high school and killing five people. Ethan is 15 years old.
This whole idea of school shootings has been on my mind, as
it is on most peoples minds, McGaw, author of the play,
said.
Matt Perkins, a sophomore theater major, plays Ethan.
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The
Tailor of Panama
A
review
By James Hanna
Skiff Staff
When I walked
into the movie theater to see The Tailor of Panama,
I didnt know what to expect. The reviews I had read called
it a thriller and a spy movie without the gadgets.
What I got was an inventive story with dynamic characters, a plot
with twists and plenty of suspense without an easily predictable
outcome. To the majority of these, I credit John Le Carre, author
of the 1996 novel of the same title and co-writer of the screenplay
adaptation.
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